Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence.


Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): (T)
Goal: Your task is to first find a winning vegetarian recipe for the competition, and to use vegetables grown in your own garden, using only the space that the network has provided for you.
Role: You are one member of a pair of chefs.
Audience: Your audience is a panel of judges consisting of a mathematician, a local farmer and a world-renowned vegetarian chef.
Situation: The first stage of the competition is to find a winning vegetarian recipe, and to use vegetables grown in your own garden, using only the space that the network has provided for you. You and your partner will present a diagram of your garden to the panel of judges which includes a local farmer, a mathematician, and a world-renowned vegetarian chef. You must convince each of them that you have the best recipe and garden design.
Product/Presentation: You are expected to present a digital model of your garden with all accurately labeled sections in a wiki reflective entry, which will include your winning recipe.
Standards (criteria from both rubrics):
Model: Content, Workload, Accuracy, Proof of time-management
Presentation: Preparedness, Clear speech, Organization, Peer evaluation, Time-limit

Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):
Other Evidence (OE)
Quizzes - There will be two quizzes; one on addition and subtraction of polynomials and one on the multiplication of polynomials.
Test - There will be one test at the end of the unit on addition, subtraction and multiplication of polynomials.
Paper - A one page explanation of how "Vegetarian Gardener" relates to polynomials will be required.

Student Self-Assessment and Reflection
Self-Assessment (SA)
Questionnaire - A short questionnaire evaluating knowledge about polynomials and their properties will be distributed before the unit and halfway through the unit.
Daily reflective journal entry / exit survey - Write a few sentences about something you learned, and something about the lesson that is frustrating you and why. Feel free to add any other questions, comments or concerns.
Rubric/ checklist - There will be a checklist found at the bottom of the product rubric.

Assessment Task Blue Print





What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task? (G)
Understanding
Goal (MLR)
• Students will be able to solve addition, subtraction, and multiplication problems involving polynomials.
• Maine Learning Results: Mathematics - D. Algebra
Symbols and Expressions

What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
Big Idea
Big Idea
• Polynomials
• Expressions / Applications

Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?
Task Description: (T)
Congratulations! You have the chance to be the next Rachel Ray! You and your cooking partner have just been asked to compete as chefs on Food Network’s newest competitive cooking show, Vegetarian Gardener. But first you have to show your math and gardening skills by growing your own ingredients in a limited space. The first stage of the competition is to find a winning vegetarian recipe, and to use vegetables grown in your own garden, using only the space that the network has provided for you. You and your partner will present a diagram of your garden to the panel of judges which includes a local farmer, a mathematician, and a world-renowned vegetarian chef. You must convince each of them that you have the best recipe and garden design.

What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?
Type II Product
Type of Presentation
• Algebra Tiles Model
• Oral Presentation

By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?
Product Criteria
Presentation Criteria
• Content 40%
• Workload 20%
• Accuracy 30%
• Proof of time management 10%

• Time-limit 10%
• Preparedness 30%
• Clear speech 20%
• Organization 20%
• Peer evaluation 10%

2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe